this infinite world

"Are you all right, Tom?"

In the mothership's medical room, Logan Dao sat beside Tom, who was lying on the bed with his eyes staring at the ceiling. He stuffed the potato chips in his hand into his mouth and asked with concern, "How do you feel?"

——The situation is not good.

This was Tom's actual feeling. Perhaps it was because everything went so smoothly after he awakened the light of his soul, causing this man to unconsciously ignore the principle of "better safe than sorry", so that he was hit hard after being a little reckless... Even though Yi Qi cut off the connection between the two in the first place, and then took the healing pill exchanged from the main spiritual space, Tom's spirit was still a little sluggish.

Even now, Tom could still vaguely hear the endless chirping and whispering of insects in his ears, and feel the mental tsunami caused by the quantitative to qualitative change of the main nest mind of the endless insect swarm, which distorted both the physical world and the spiritual world... Even so, Tom still forced himself to smile and said, "Fortunately, why are you here?"

"The captain asked me to come and see you."

Luo Gandao touched his head and smiled embarrassedly: "After all, you know the captain. Although he doesn't say it, he is still worried about you in his heart. Besides, I am useless there, so I came..."

"I see... I'm sorry for showing you my useless side." Tom sighed, "I thought the other party was the trash Zerg that was able to get in and out of the Zerg Sea seven times when I first entered the fourth level. It was my old experience that hurt me."

"That's not the case, Brother Tom. You are already very impressive for being able to withstand the mental impact of these alien insects."

"…What kind of insects?"

"Alien insects, Brother Tom, don't you know? When I was observing them before, many of them looked similar to the ones I saw in animations, games, and movies."

Speaking of this topic, Rogan Dao seemed to be in high spirits. He immediately began to introduce it in a torrent of words, occasionally mentioning some special terms such as "Lagus cells" or "variable gravity sources", as if he knew similar monsters from mecha warfare works... But from what Tom heard, this seemed to far exceed the concept of the so-called Zerg in those science fiction works he knew.

Seeing that Logandao showed no sign of stopping, Tom's head, which had recovered a little, began to hurt again. And the mind controller of the Demon Team also felt the existence of the "generation gap" for the first time... Obviously, the age difference between the two was not much, why couldn't he understand what the other party said?

"That's enough, Logan said. Stop your unnecessary speculations."

Suddenly, the door of the medical room opened silently, and a female voice sounded: "This will only make things more complicated. It's completely useless."

Then, a beautiful girl appeared at the door. Her face was somewhat similar to the clone Chu Xuan. She also wore a pair of plain glasses and had a cold temperament... If the members of the Zhongzhou team saw her face, they would be shocked, because the girl in front of them was almost exactly the same as Setsuna, who was disguised as Chu Xuan using "Edwina's Belt" in Resident Evil 2.

"It's you again... Zhang Xiaoxue." Upon realizing the identity of the woman who entered, Luo Gandao's expression suddenly turned cold, and his originally endless words became somewhat sarcastic: "Then, may I ask, as 'Chu Xuan Fengren', what advice do you have for me?"

"Of course. The key issue now is that we need to protect the coordinates of the Earth from being known by the Zerg."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiaoxue showed a hint of satisfaction when she heard Luo Gandao's name, which was obviously more sarcastic than complimentary. Then she gently pushed her glasses and replied proudly, "That is to say, we can't let the swarm invade the nearest human colony."

"The Earth is thirty thousand light years away from the Klendasu Galaxy. Not only is it not on the same cantilever, it is even located on opposite sides of the galactic center. Although in the original work the Earth Federation government claimed that it was the Zerg that dropped meteorites to destroy Buenos Aires, when we returned to this world last time and brought the federal government under our management, made it the logistics base for the Devil Team, and formed the Samsara Corps, we discovered from confidential files that this was just a false flag operation by the human high-level officials in order to rationalize the plunder of resources."

"So the Zerg actually don't know the coordinates of the Earth, otherwise we wouldn't be facing this task. Therefore, if they want to know the coordinates of the Earth, they must devour or control humans who know the coordinates and read relevant information from their brains and genes, just like what they did in the real Starship Troopers 2 movie."

As she spoke, Zhang Xiaoxue took out a bright apple from somewhere, just like Chu Xuan, took a small bite, and then gestured a few times in the air, calling up the holographic projection of the Milky Way star map: "According to the star map, the human facilities closest to Klendasu are also several military outposts and resource mining bases four light years away. Therefore, our mission is equivalent to preventing the Zerg from approaching them."

"...Tsk." Listening to Zhang Xiaoxue's well-reasoned words, Luo Gandao gritted his teeth unwillingly, looking like he wanted to refute but couldn't find a good reason, so he could only say sourly: "Anyway, it was Chu Xuan who taught you."

"Haha, Luo Gandao, you guessed wrong." Zhang Xiaoxue puffed out her chest proudly: "This is my own analysis, and it is completely different from you, who is a mecha pilot but exercises every day without any skills, is more like a simple-minded gorilla with strong limbs than a pilot, and can't even perform mechanical transformation and upgrades on his mecha..."

"what?"

Hearing this, Luo Gandao's voice suddenly rose an octave. He stood up with a bang, and his voice was so loud that the roof was buzzing: "What do you mean by 'exercise every day but learn nothing'? I was practicing the fighting techniques that Brother Zheng Zha taught me! How can you, who don't even know where to turn the joystick after getting on the mecha, understand it?"

"Who do you think can't even bend a joystick? Don't forget who maintained and repaired your Crimson Asura God Yaldabat..."

"Hey……"

Looking at the two people quarreling in front of him, Tom, who was lying on the hospital bed, sighed and closed his eyes again.

——I always feel that the troubles in the team seem to be increasing. (End of this chapter)